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- Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
- Path: sparky!uunet!ncube.com!db1!russell
- From: russell@ncube.com (Russell Randolph)
- Subject: Sendmail default host for unknown users
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.172105.28665@ncube.com>
- Lines: 29
- Sender: usenet@ncube.com
- Nntp-Posting-Host: db1_pdx
- Organization: nCUBE CORPORATION
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:21:05 GMT
-
- We have a subnet containing 6 user's workstations (HP 750, HP-UX 8.07).
- All of the rest of the people in the company get mail from machine xxx
- on the main net. I would like to tell sendmail on the subnet that if the
- user is unknown, try sending it to a machine on the main net and see if
- it knows about the user.
-
- Being a small company, we send mail to "account_name", instead of
- "account_name@system_name". I would like these workstations to work
- the same way.
-
- I am using the sendmail option saying "if you don't know about a certain
- host, try machine xxx" (options DWxxx and DSxxx). I am looking for a
- similar function for users.
-
- The only ways I can see to do this are:
-
- - Keep the aliases file up to date. But what a pain. Every new person to
- the company requires me to update my local aliases file.
-
- - Add sendmail commands that essentially say:
- if (who != "aaa" && who != "bbb" && ... && who != "root") who = who@xxx
- What a kludge!
-
- So, any suggestions? Hopefully I've missed something very basic.
-
- Thanks!
-
- Russell Randolph
- nCUBE, Beaverton, Oregon
- russell@ncube.com
-